Democracy in Class.

Today we tried organising the roles of our individual class members. It pretty much 2 hours to get anywhere and we still didn't finalise everything.

Alex was chair in this, recognising people when they raised their hand, letting them stand and explain any queries without interruption - this all seemed very well and we got on with it nicely. We agreed on characters, their names and subtle side-stories. However, after a while of debating and actually getting somewhere, the other side of our desk began raising points setting us back to square one e.g. not liking characters, stories, themes, etc. This became infuriatingly tedious and with this boredom and argumentativeness we all began to lose the hands-up one-at-a-time structure until it was a slow moving row.

The task for this blog was to say what we feel and I cant help but bring up negatives as only a few things came out well (like who was director, post production manager, actors and cinematographers) but there were still many more roles to be filled. Luckily in this task it's easy to multi-task, taking on both editing and, say, acting as while acting you can visualise the look you want to accomplish in post prod, thus giving you the correct movements, dialogue, etc...

So really I'd like to create a better and stricter structure to our conversational structure. The idea was to stay the same fundamentally but add more equality and evenness.

Here is my plan:

In the image I have placed 12 people plus the chair person. The way it should go is that the chair person raises a point or question FROM THE BOARD and asks Number 1. Number 1 then goes on to say his query (if they have one) and the rest of the class (including the chair) can put up there hand and be recognised by Number 1 (making them the chair) in order to answer their questions - If a dilemma is created, the original chair shall raise their hand and re-adress to the class with the new problem (if there is one) starting from Number 2, thus allowing each number to be addressed with an important question that airs their view. This way it can go the whole way around the class without single class members constantly getting a say. If a point is made by the chair and it is fine with everyone, they'll start from 1 and pass around the circle until a flaw is identified. If there is no flaw the chair can move on to the next issue FROM THE BOARD.